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Do Not Call list back on again.

I heard that!

CD protection defeated. Hold down the shift key.

Am I the only one that discovered lately that Roy’s last name was Horn? And it’s just a bit disappointing.

This is why it’s important to teach your parrot to speak. If you have one of those hellspawn, of course.

Pope still not dead.

We’re hunting Saddam.

You have a problem, you find a solution. It’s the American way.

“The (crime) family would put the body of the murdered victim below the regular customer, thus disappearing forever,” Rotondo explained to prosecutor Michael McGovern. “There would be six grown men carrying someone’s 80-pound grandmother, and they looked like they were having a problem.”

On the senior offical leak. Yeah, fascinating stuff I know.

Well, he’s got an opinion. (reg. req.)

I bet he hangs on a while just to annoy the world. I also predict at his funeral there will be rioting and bloodshed.

Why do I keep hearing the Phoenix office of the FBI in relation to terrorism?

While President Clinton was trying to broker an elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians, the FBI was secretly funneling money to suspected Hamas figures to see if the militant group would use it for terrorist attacks, according to interviews and court documents.

The counterterrorism operation in 1998 and 1999 was run out of the FBI’s Phoenix office in cooperation with Israeli intelligence and was approved by Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI officials told The Associated Press.

via WorldNetDaily

Along with all the Democratic presidential hopefuls’s. Bush-Cheney ’04 blog. Woo.

It’s a wacky place.

The dog, whose coat caught fire when the owner’s vehicle backfired, ignited a grass fire just off U.S. Highway 95.

Firefighters doused the grass fire and reported the dog was unhurt, only smelling of burnt hair.

“I have been in firefighting for many years, but I have never seen anything like this happen,” Culdesac Fire Chief Gary Gilliam said.

It happened Saturday when a motorist who ran out of fuel put gas in the tank and then primed the carburetor. On restarting, the van backfired, throwing sparks into the cab and igniting the dog’s fur.

A passenger let the dog out, and it rolled in dry grass, putting out the flames on its coat but setting the grass afire.

From John Kerry:

KERRY: Five thousand years ago, Moses said, “Hitch up your camel. Pick up your shovel. Mount your ass. I will lead you to the promised land.” Five thousand years later, Franklin Roosevelt said, “Light up a Camel. Lay down your shovel. Sit on your ass. This is the promised land.” Today, George Bush will lay off your camel, tax your shovel, kick your ass and tell you there is no promised land.

via BestOfTheWeb

True or False?

Wizbang remembers the good old days too.

Bonus points for bringing Larry Himmel into it. San Diego at Large Rocked!

And just so you all know, I was at the game Steve Garvey got thrown out of, for the first time in his career.

I’m thinking if this keeps up the FTC or FCC or FEC is just going to take away everyone’s phones and set them in corners until they can all play nicely together. Or the 9th Circuit Court is going to decree phones to be a violation of the Establishment Clause because people can say “God” to strangers, possibly atheists, on them.

Dave Barry vs. The Telemarketers, part, what, III or IV now.

The Post vs. Moveon.org.

Yeow!

via Instapundit

Teenagers in Wales don’t know it’s illegal to smoke pot in public.

via Fark

There are no more? good ideas for reality TV.

But in Connecticut? C’mon I would think there are other places pestilence would be rained down first.

John Hawkins interviews David Limbaugh.

I don’t normally look at the ads in Opera, but this one caught my eye. BTW, the new Open Office is available for download.

Remember, white space, it draws the eye.

Brought to you by The Bleat:

We always think that people from the past would be AMAZED! at our gadgets, but they had sci-fi back then, too. If you headed to the past and wanted to find someone who could truly understand the world 50 years hence, look for the clerk who goes to the drugstore for his lunch break and reads Tales of Mars, not the guy who reads the New York Times.

Teach them well and let them riot in the streets for no good reason.

The riot came in the aftermath of an afternoon homecoming football game at the school stadium where Minnesota State, Mankato, lost to North Dakota State University 20-9.

Quit telling everyone they’re winners all the time and teach them how to take a loss without causing chaos. It’s called “building character”.

Will DivX be the next great video compression scheme? Stay tuned.

This is sooo sad. I’ll leave it to you to find the chronological, logical, and factual errors, also the hypocrisy.

via LGF

Those news people.

via Inoperable Terran

Microsoft wants to integrate Windows into the BIOS.

Microsoft has expanded its relationship with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies in a deal designed to more closely integrate the basic building blocks of the PC with the Windows operating system.

Not only will your OS be unstable, your BIOS will too! Oh joy.

A BIOS, or basic input/output system, is the software that ties the operating system to a PC’s hardware. Traditionally, it has carried out basic tasks such as hardware and system configuration, and has been standardised and simple enough to allow the installation of alternative operating systems, including Linux.

And

The BIOS would also allow better control of unauthorised devices connected to a system, Microsoft said.

So nothing on your computer unless Bill says it’s okay. Yeah, good idea.

via Slashdot

Something about people quacking from “amphibious duck boats” upseting shoppers. I don’t understand. It’s an East Coast thing, I think.

via Fark

Well, yeah, they are all about to inherit a ton of money.

It’s not always so great to be chosen. Tevye said it best, ” “I know we’re the chosen people, but just for once couldn’t you chose someone else?!”

Er, copyright violators. Senator seeking to lower penalties for copyright violations. They are currently $75,00-$150,00 for each song.

Actually these are fun word problems.

via Joyful Christian

They have lots of plans, but they miss a vital point. Citizens aren’t allowed to defend themselves. No wonder everyone’s nervous.

It’s Friday! This is the best line:

Second, President Bush, whatever one thinks of him, is, well, let’s face it, a strange sort of president.

You can’t argue with that. He certainly isn’t what I expected.

No, not a gameboy game, little tracking devices. How long till that is hacked? “No really, I was at the mall! You can check online!”

Michael Jackson, not content with freaking adults out, had started scaring small children.

via Drudge Report

I was watching some ball game and there was the Carl’s Jr. star but it said “Hardee’s” on the banner. Are Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. the same restaurant or what?

UPDATE: A-ha. What, Carl’s Jr. didn’t poll well in some places so they changed the name?

A giant dorito for sale on Ebay. But look at the price. What is wrong with these people? If you have such a desperate need to waste money, please, just send it to me.

Man finds his stolen truck and steals it back. Of course, he didn’t get the new truck he was going to buy, that’s a bummer.

But tasty. If only they would evolve into something that can survive, like humans.

“National Enquirer accuses Rush of ‘drug abuse’” Exactly, the National Enquirer also thinks Big Foot has been seen recently. And by Big Foot I don’t mean Janet Reno.

Clearly I haven’t been following baseball closely, because it has just come to my attention that it it conceivable that the Red Sox could play the Cubs in the World Series. Obviously the Four Horsemen would follow the last game of that series.

Remember the good old days when the Cubs were the only team besides the Braves that the Padres could beat? Yeah, good times.

North Korea making Atom Bomb! On the other hand, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to later find out they are lying about it all.

via DrudgeReport

Smuggled chemical, bio warheads.

via The Corner

How to Twirl A Pen. Hey, these things are important. To me. Sort of.

A definitive dictionary with all the sounds we normally use in conversation translated into words. Like “yeah” and “hmm” and others that I can’t spell, darn it. Could someone get on that please. Thanks.

And all that.

Dave Hunt on homosexuals and the Church.

Utah legislators can’t figure out their own laws.

Hilarious cat movie. Don’t download at work unless your coworkers don’t care about you laughing out loud.

Clearly I’ve been reading too much Fark.

Or so it seems. China wants to develop Open Source, after stealing Windows, now India is giving MS the cold shoulder. So much for the global hegemony.

Haha. Free Wi-Fi at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. I knew sooner or later it would come to Idaho. Now I can walk down there and surf in posh surroundings, until I get kicked out. Brad Pitt was here last week, you know. Can’t have people like him seeing the local riff-raff.

Breeding humans for intelligence. At least it caused an uproar. The problem comes when no one notices this sort of thing.

Isn’t it illegal to fight back against robbers in England?

From Jack Dunphy:

I know, references to Article I, Section 8 are seen as quaint by those for whom no matter is too small to warrant federal intervention. But it is the job of local governments, whether in Los Angeles or Crystal River, to deal with their crime problems, just as they did in the 200-plus years before Bill Clinton appointed himself mayor of the United States.

This is fun. THE coolest looking program ever: Reason. Plus you get to turn all the knobs and plug and unplug all the cables. It’s worth the download just to play with it.

Children addicted to TV? The electrical outages ought to take care of that.

via Drudge Report

I was hoping someone would turn our nation into a seventh-century hellhole. I’d vote for that.

Very Interesting.

via Joyful Christian

We take something, and make it better. Chocolate Peeps. How could you not love them?

Possibly the stupidest list I’ve ever seen.

John Derbyshire on AIDS:

We should always do our best with the Christian virtues, and I honestly do; but faced with the sheer stupendous quantity of suffering in the world, the quite disproportionate attention given to people with AIDS — many of whom got the disease as a result of irresponsible hedonism — often seems to me, to speak frankly about it, offensive.

And:

A no-tax pledge from a candidate is always a plus, far as I’m concerned, but here are three more pledges a politician should make if he wants my vote.

Don’t weep in public, unless your spouse just dropped dead on the stage right next to you.

Don’t point, unless a fire has broken out, or the Second Coming has taken place right there in the hall.

Don’t tell me how hard illegal immigrants work. I know they work hard, but they’re I-L-L-E-G-A-L.

Can you say “piracy”? I knew you could. China is looking at Microsoft source code. Yeah, there’ll be a Chinese version out shortly. MS will be shocked, China will feign innocence and life will go on.

via Slashdot

The guy who invented it. I would like to take a moment to thank him for this. Thanks.

via Slashdot

We could go to Mars if we want, astronauts say.

Communication is 9/10ths non-verbal you know. Or is that possesion is 9/10ths of the law? Either way, if you figure out what the video says, let me know.

via, clearly, Dave Barry’s Blog

Never mind, I figured it out.

Musicmatch is the latest. While they have far more flexible licensing than buy.com, I don’t want WMA format. So, still useless to me.

From Mark Steyn.

So, in a month when the government can’t even be a competent drug dealer, and environmental nonprofit groups have bankrupted the endangered species list, and the international humanitarians have decided the Iraqis can go screw themselves, I say: Let’s hear it for the private sector.

I know I followed a link from somewhere, but I don’t remember. Gratutiously follow a link to the right and we’ll be even.

I wouldn’t get too excited, but here’s more news on that.

Incredibly annoying registration required.

Vote for the most important documents in US history.

Return of the King Trailer. Good luck getting it. AOL worked best for me.

And the Rule of Law.

Jews have almost always been the first target of tyrants, because their beliefs and religious practices, honed by nearly two millennia in Diaspora, clearly declare that in their view the law is above the ruler:

via LGF

Osama’s Pirates?

Finally. Although, it’s not as if we’ve been doing a lot lately ourselves.

What is is with the electrical infrastructure around the world? Of course, I keep expecting the wind here to knock ours out at any time today.

Good solid info.

Offered by Bruce Willis. The whole article is good. You should go read it.

During an interview Willis said: “Peculiar thing back home is that the liberal media was trying to portray it as a bad war.

“But being over here just a couple of days, seeing how well our troops and the allied troops are being received here, (I) think the Iraqi people are happy we’re here,” the Hollywood star said.

I got a new toy today and have to figure it all out. I’ll be back when I’m done, bored, or so frustrated I threw it against the wall.

UPDATE: It was ridiculously easy. Plug it in, run the wizard, viola. Geez, what’s the use of having a linux-based pda if I don’t have to search forums for hours to discover that you have to break out terminal and “chmod” anything.

Do Not Call list banned again. Free speech, my eye.

I never understood the fascination, but apparently it’s coming back.

Here. Actually I disagree with one of his points today:

Mr. Bush has been criticized for isolating Yasser Arafat. But the latter is someone whose enmity you welcome. The Europeans may give him a pass on his stealthy financial and emotional subsidies for Hamas and related killers, but they won’t forgive his near-billion dollars in a private bank account. Killing Jews is one thing; stealing European money to subsidize the good life for kin and cronies is quite another.

As often as they have these scandals with major leaders hoarding millions and the shady dealings, I don’t think it bothers the Europeans. Otherwise they’d put a stop to it.

UPDATE: New and improved. With actual link provided. Why didn’t someone tell me? I’m so embarassed.

by Paul Johnson. He put it much nicer.

Well, at least this guy’s. Do you have a roll?

And remember, if the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

Don’t get used to it. Iraqi’s buying stuff.

via Instapundit. He’s got a bunch of stuff on Iraq, might as well go there.

Here’s a subject I know next to nothing about. Anyway, I was at the gym watching Australia play China. Let me clarify. I was at the gym running and while running I was watching soccer. At first I thought it was North Korea vs. the US due to the many scrolls going by. I couldn’t figure out why the US had yellow and green uniforms. But that’s another story. My point is, China totally outplayed Australia the whole time I was watching. They controlled the ball 95% of the time, there was never a pass without a receiver. They just couldn’t convert. Australia couldn’t make two passes in a row without a turnover. Another thing I noticed is there was not one commercial in 30 minutes. Not even a single beer commercial. It was weird. That communist influence is pervasive.

Again! Am I in some parallel universe or something?

“Fifty million Americans can’t be wrong,” Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., declared Wednesday

Actually they can, but not in this case.

Steel knives allowed for meals. In first-class only. The unwashed masses are not to be trusted with such dangerous implements. Or food that requires them.

via Volokh Conspiracy

Israel gets the blame.

Congress does good!

House and Senate negotiators have decided to close a Pentagon office that was developing a vast computerized terrorism surveillance system and bar spending that would allow those high-tech spying tools to be used against Americans on U.S. soil.

MPAA gets in on the RIAA act.

This summer, night-vision goggles became a familiar fashion accessory for security guards at movie premieres as they searched for people in the audience carrying banned video recorders. The industry’s trade association began a nationwide piracy awareness campaign in movie theaters and on television. Studios are aggressively putting electronic watermarks on movie prints so they can determine who is abetting the file sharing. And some movie executives are considering whether to send out early DVD’s to Academy Award voters, fearing the films will be distributed online.

If you want movies early and don’t want to download them, visit Southeast Asia.

I was walking around downtown this evening and as I walked by I was looking in peoples’ houses. Hey, they left their blinds open and what else am I going to look at? It’s dark, it’s not like I can see where I’m stepping. Anyway, I noticed that a vast majority of the homes had boring, boring, boring interiors. Off-white walls, maybe a painting or two, possibly a plant. Boring. A couple were moderately better looking because they had:

a. wood paneling
or
b. an arch instead of a doorway.

And this runs the gamut of wealth and poverty. Because a great thing, sort of, about downtown Coeur d’Alene is that on any given block there will be something like a million dollar Bed and Breakfast, a few nice middle-class homes, a starter home or two and a rental meth-lab.

But I was thinking, and here’s the point of this, we need to go back to those Victorian type wallpapers, the bold colors, the stripes, the floral prints. And displays of things, stuffed birds, pinecones, possibly even books, anything. For all their alleged prudishness those Victorians had some amazing looking houses.

Of course, I rent, so I can’t actually apply too much of this to my life, but if you own a home, do the neighbors a favor and consider sprucing the place up. Or close your blinds before it’s dark.

Major flub on AP.

If you’re playing Enemy Territory. If you’re not, why not?

Personalized couching. Strikes me a scientific avenue that needs to be explored more.

This is interesting. Whether it’ll work or not, I don’t know.

I heard that!

Kazaa sues RIAA. BWHAHAHA!

Well, these guys in Oklahoma at least.

The Direct Marketing Association sued to block the list shortly after Congress approved it in January, saying it would violate free-speech laws and discriminate against an industry that provides millions of jobs.

Well, the War on Drugs discriminates against an industry that provides millions of jobs too, but you don’t see them complaining.

It’s those bad people giving our product its bad name.

Microsoft is closing internet chat rooms because their misuse by spammers, paedophiles and others is damaging the reputation of its MSN service and the internet as a whole.

Heh.

A giant elevator (evil reg. req.). For sending stuff to space. Why? C’mon, let’s colonize the moon or go to Mars or something interesting, for Pete’s sake. I guess they could send stuff up to the astronauts, IF THEY WERE PLANNING ON SENDING ANYONE ANYWHERE REMOTELY INTERESTING. Here’s Slashdot on the conference.

And what if Ella Fitzgerald married Darth Vader? More on that here.

I’ve been trying to ignore the Democratic primaries, but this is too stupid to pass up:

Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean invoked Boston’s revolutionary legacy on Tuesday as he urged Americans to dump their latter-day “king” — George W. Bush — whom he accused of threatening democracy and caring only for the very rich.

I am not rich, I don’t think I even am above the poverty line. I got money back a while ago and now I seem to be getting more in my paycheck. People with kids just got a chunk of change back. Why is that? Tax cuts.

What was a cause of the Revolutionary War? Tax hikes. More taxes. Giving more money to the government.

See the difference?

Does your dog know calculus? (Warning: PDF document) (Additional Warning: Pictures of Corgies)

Now they have a golf course. Barely.

I would sign up to be on this reality show. Think of the loot.

Hindu gang killed Christian missionary.

Christian missionaries help India’s poor by establishing schools and hospitals but are often accused of enticing illiterate villagers to convert to their faith.

Yeah, that’s the point to missionary work. Why is this so confusing for people?

Children are more affected by violence on the news than in soaps and television drama, a report said yesterday.

I know I can’t stand watching the news.

I could get some government to send me $200,000 a month. I’m going about my life all wrong I fear.

Bite-sized wisdom

* Some poll says Clark is tied with Bush. Are there really that many mindless Bush haters to make that possible? What we need to do is put out a bunch of shiny objects on Election Day to distract those people from voting.

* Bush is going to address the U.N. today about getting help on Iraq. He should bring a bat. Anyone speaks out of turn – POW! – they get the bat. A lot of people at the U.N. are foreign and thus don’t know American ways, so Bush should familiarize them.

* Aschroft is really mean to criminals, telling prosecutors to always charge criminals with maximum crimes and penalties. This is in contrast to Janet Reno who gave prosecutors much more leniency. Then again, she did burn people alive and take little Cuban kids prisoner at the gunpoint of an MP5 submachine gun. So, that’s not exactly lenient, especially if you’re a little Cuban kid.

Here.

Powell made the remark in an interview with the Charlie Rose Show on public television while talking about Washington’s vision of what kind of government Iraq should have.

He said he expected it to be “an Islamic country by faith, just as we are a Judeo-Christian…”

“Well, it’s hard to tell any more, but we are a country of many faiths now,” he added quickly.

Read and Enjoy!

Had other plans. I’ve always wondered why they didn’t hit both coasts at the same time. Now, having read the article, I still don’t know.

It worries me a little that I find out about local news via Fark.

BOTW has noticed a few non sequiturs also (it’s the last bit, on both links).

I’ve never been any of the places he lists, but I believe he has captured the essence of the state.