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Duh, it’s Friday!

By any fair token, the losses after 9/11 have been nearly all our enemies — human, material, and psychological — from bases in Afghanistan to entire nations. Yet such is the extent of our power that al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Baathists alike sorely feel that they are losing a war, while Americans attuned to the new fall season sitcoms are breezily oblivious that they are winning it.

They give and give and give. But if this works anything like illegal alien amnesty, there will be another one in a few years. So don’t sweat it. Of course, by then it’ll be the MPAA doing it.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet said the plaintiffs failed to show that the fast-food chain misled consumers into believing its food was nutritious and part of a healthy diet.

McDonalds should take that defense and run with it.

via Inoperable Terran

Maybe fox hunting wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

Smoking ban at the UN not such a hit.

I think Adobe better watch out. “Photoshopped” as a verb is becoming more and more prevalent. I wonder if it’ll end up like “jello” or “kleenex”.

Universal Music to drop price of CD’s to something reasonable.

via Drudge Report

Realizes he is getting paid to legislate, returns home.

via Fark

It’s sorta a flypaper/domino theory.

But apparently not.

At the Florida prison where he will die by lethal injection today, Paul Hill told a press conference: “I expect a good reward in heaven. More people should act as I acted. You don’t need permission to defend your neighbour.”

He’s in for a shock.

Here’s a hint: if you’re gonna steal £2 million, don’t spend it on noisy, annoying birds that are going to outlive you. That’s just dumb. To coin a phrase, an investment that eats is not an investment.

Who do slashdotters hate worse than Bill Gates? Spammers. And boy, do they ever.

Indeed.

Which part of illegal is confusing these people? Il-legal. Not legal. And if they weren’t in the country, they wouldn’t be driving around without insurance, now would they?

Particles and things. Good luck with it.

Best of the Web is back!

I’ve been worrying about this since I was twelve.

It could happen! I saw it in a movie once. But a giant asteroid could hit earth. Which almost goes without saying, but CNN is having a slow news day apparently.

Much work today. I suggest visiting the links on the sidebar. More later. I hope.

Dave Barry says:

So what does the public care about right now? Telemarketers. The public hates them. It hates them even more than it hates France, low-flow toilets or ”customer service.”

Do you know why Toyota’s sell so well? They’re super-reliable and if you take care of them you can get 300,000 miles from them. Other car makers may want to consider doing something like that. Just a thought.

Lebanon, hotbed of terrorist enterprise, can’t find it in it’s heart to kill a stinking lizard. Just shoot the thing.

The Volokh Conspiracy has interesting thoughts on religious and secular law.

Renegade minks kill farm animals. Animal “rights” activists say it proves that farm-raised mink can survive in eco-system. Apparently animal “rights” activists don’t know what an eco-system is.

Israel has plans to take out Iranian nuclear power plant. Seems smart.

via LGF

17th Century Puritan’s diary code broken. It’s more interesting to me that they have people are expert in 17th century shorthand.

Socialized medicine. It’s good for everyone. Sorta.

And why stoning people (with rocks) is a bad sign.

VDH.

Online privacy shot.

via Inoperable Terran

Heh.

UPDATE: Darn.

It might be illegal later.

No really. My last vacuum cleaner went kaput a while ago, so a robotic one would be an ideal replacement.

Eco-terrorism and market forces.

via Instapundit

I’m not saying I’m old, but…Pacman, c’mon everyone knows that one.

Mars Attacks!

They have too much free time and too many bugs in New Jersey.

via Dave Barry Blog

Iran has weapons-grade uranium.

As California gives Florida a run for its money in the wackiest state of the union, Florida’s legislature has come up with a LAN tax. This ought to be great.

via Slashdot

At least for me: www.acronymfinder.com. You too can find out what FUD stands for.

AOL blogging as told by Scrappleface.

Excellent.

Judge Myron H. Thompson of the Federal District Court, who has been presiding over the case, said that Roy’s Rock is “nothing less than an obtrusive year-round religious display.” So it is; but obtrusive year-round religious displays in state courthouses are prohibited in the Constitution… where?

UPDATE: I just reread it. You must read it. Go.

I was sick today. Since I have work to do, though, I took the little red pills and feel much better now, thanks.

On the absolutely incredible French heat wave death toll.

Coming to Cartoon Network. I love this country.

Beatle trivia knowledge necessary to get into Britian?

NY Times shuts down computers.

Which worries me about the future of his alliance. Make sure you read the comments or you’ll have no idea what I’m talking about.

Abu Bakar Bashir, the Indonesian Muslim cleric accused of leading the terrorist group blamed for the Bali bombings, broke down in tears yesterday and warned judges at his treason trial that they would “go to hell” if they convicted him.

There’s more.

People will never be surprised by the amount of money I have. Unless it’s by how little it is.

I, for one, would not strap a machine on that was named HAL. Although, other than that, it looks like a great idea.

It’s the wrong trousers, Grommit! And they’ve gone wrong!

via Slashdot

Extended versions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers coming to a theatre near you. Possibly. In December. This is awesome. It better come to Spokane.

via Slashdot

Everything running well? Here’s some fun tweaks to try. I make no promises or guarantees. Backup your registry.

Victor Davis Hanson. Go now.

Ecoterrorism causes San Diego fires.

No talking at lunchtime. I always ate lunch outdoors (except when it rained, the we watched movies in the gym), but to be dismissed to go play we had to prove that we ate most of our food.

via DrudgeReport

Shouldn’t there be some sort of statute of limitations on this sort of thing? Also in The Corner. Also super-smart Volokh Conspiracy.

Thai ice cream man dies laughing in his sleep. I bet he’s the one behind the corn flavored ice cream. This is wacky too. Don’t look at me, I guess they like vegetables in their ice cream.

via Everything’s Gone Green

I’ve always thought killing bugs was a good idea.

Linus Torvalds says SCO “smoking crack”. Heh.

It’s long, but good.

Instapundit on Chemical Ali’s arrest.

Is you my mammy?

The Post cereal commercial, where they’re parodying The Naked Chef, hilarious.

Yeah, no links. Just thought I’d share.

Okay, it looks like Joyful Christian is back. Feel free to visit for enlightening discussion on various topics.

Albright: irrelevant and obsolete.

The burglar suing the farmer who shot him while he was burgling, caught red-handed. Now how this could even be a case is utterly beyond me, but then the unfathomable stupidity of the burglar just adds to the insanity.

Tampa dumps what has got to be unconstitutional face recognition scanners on the streets. Why? Stupid things don’t work. And for once I agree with the ACLU.

DivX now requires adware. XviD is where it’s at. Well, there are a multitude of other choices.

That if you don’t like the smog, you can move somewhere else? Instead of saddling taxpayers with public transportation bills.

Biff and Sandy on the way to Mars.

So go to ThisToThat and they can answer all your gluing questions.

via, obviously: Dave Barry Blog

The Lemon. I really should get that link up on the sidebar. I really should do a lot of things.

Is it just me or is Amazon down? What the heck?

UPDATE: They’re back. Or they’re letting me on now.

John Derbyshire has this to say about longevity. Maybe it’s because I’m so young, maybe because I have had a easy life, but I wouldn’t mind going on for another 100 years.

At welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com

From Scrappleface.

Sobig.F is on the loose. Don’t open attachments in your emails. Why on the earth are you letting .exe’s and .pif’s through anyway?

I knew we wouldn’t just sit by and let the Martians invade.

Power outages, gas shortages. What is this? It’s like some third-world nation. Minus the bombs, small-arms fire and military junta, of course.

A good reason to not procrastinate on filling your tank. They could go to California and drive the speed limit, blocking traffic for miles.

Napolitano also is being urged to relax the Valley’s clean air rules to allow non-formulated gas to be used. Only a handful of refineries make the special blend and relaxing the rules would make more supply available.

“If the governor would waive the mandate, there would be all kinds of gas pouring into that state,” said Paul Latham, Costco’s vice president of gasoline sales. Costco is getting small shipments daily, but it’s not enough to keep the stations open all day. Costco’s gas islands have operated sporadically since the pipeline was closed Aug. 8.

Environuts make life miserable for everyone again. Thanks guys. I’m sure the cactus appreciate the clean air.

Charles at LGF says it best:

Those rotten Palestinian bastards. Those rotten, cowardly, evil bastards.

I passed my Network+ final. Actually, I got an A.

Is working a little better than planned, I think.

Saddam can’t be sleeping well these days.

via Instapundit

Whenever I read a discussion of “Marsh Arabs” I can’t help but think of Puddleglum, the Marshwiggle from The Silver Chair. I imagine a dour bunch of Arabs schlepping their way through whatever they do in those marshes.

Here’s something I don’t think about enough:

We take for granted the ability to separate fact from fiction, to identify that which looks, feels and smells reasonably like the truth. Yet the long Western struggle to view the world objectively is culturally unique. Especially in the Arab world, myth, comforting lies and cynical rumors trump facts that seem undeniable to us.

Read the whole thing.

Friendly hackers. Good or Bad? You decide.

Today will be slow because I’m trying to study for my Network+ class final, while working. And I can do two things at once but not three, so blogging loses.

And despite age-old tall tales of little green men from Mars, there is nothing to worry about, says Linda Sparke, who chairs the University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy department.

“It’s not going to attack us,” she explained in her down-to-Earth way. “It’s quite safe.”

I believe a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the oh-so-friendly Martians would discourage any hawks amongst them. You can’t be too careful.

via DrudgeReport

This is why our military rocks. Photoshop.

via Instapundit

It was in town today. Well, an original copy of it. Super cool. The best part was the video with a bunch of commie pinko movie stars reading it. I hope they were paying attention to what they were saying.

Rob Lowe joins Shwartzenegger team.

via Drudge Report

More than you ever wanted to know about the RIAA at www.boycott-riaa.com.

via Volokh Conspiracy

Remember when some guy goes to jail for linking to a site? Now Eugene Volokh of the smarty-pants Volokh Conspiracy finds more abridgment of link freedom. I think he handled it well.

A reminder of less smokey days. Cause right now it looks like winter here.

Fewer Choices! Less Responsibility!

Well taken care of by Right Wing News.

Buy your ticket to heaven on ebay. Episcopalians ought to seriously consider this option.

Right on!

Restructuring the world.

Kicked out of Alabama courthouse. I can’t wait to see them heft that thing out of there. Not that I don’t like it, it just has to weigh a ton.

If you desperately need to keep up with the power outage situation, the Command Post is the place to start. Really, any time there’s a major emergency, it’s the place to start. Vast world-wide armies of bloggers with battery backups are posting semi-continously.

More from the Instaminions. A brief history.

UPDATE: Wow. It doesn’t really make him seem kinder and friendlier though.

Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch…

Anyway, the US blames Canada. A reasonable proposition I think. Canadian officials blame lightning at Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls says there was no lightning. It’s all Canada’s fault. Until further notice.

I can’t help but grin. Sucks to be you Sadaam.

Fighting fire with fire.

Huge blackout on the East Coast. Don’t worry, everything’s fine in Idaho.

As BOTW would say, Who’s Distracted?

So, Frank J. of IMAO has declared war on Instapundit, again. Instapundit took it calmly. Now Instaminions are clamoring. So, my suggestion last week to Frank J. (which he ignored, not unlike El Licuador del Perrito he railed against so eloquently) that he should get Glenn a new slogan worked, sort of.

SCO is attempting to invalidate the GPL license that most open-source software relies on. Geeks and nerds everywhere grab their pitchforks and firebrands and storm the SCO castle…again. Arguing along the way, “IANAL but, copyleft is a great idea that would stand up to the RIAA and M$ in a court of Tonga.” “IANAL but you’re an Idiot!” “Mod parent down!”

Underwater goggle headphones. Not that I swim laps, but isn’t technology cool?

Oddly enough, a British council wants to formal up its receptionists.

A venerated sage with vast power and knowledge, you gently guide forces around you while serving as a champion of the light.

Try for yourself and see.

Whale Flatulence Stuns Scientists

It goes without saying, I think: via Dave Barry’s Blog

Microsoft to discontinue Outlook Express. They’re switching focus to Hotmail/MSN and Outlook. Hotmail, yeah, I’d depend on that for email. Riiight. And Outlook is a) expensive, and b) too complex for me to be checking my email at home.

Quick, switch to Mozilla or Opera.

Nerds arguing over global warming. What I get from it is it’s either good or it’s bad.

Is excellent today. Idiot telephone techs, child-rearing tips, Stinger missles, it’s got it all.

RIAA loses.

I guess today is left-hander’s day. Yeah, we rock! Did you ever notice that if you hold a coke can left-handed it covers up the logo? See how pervasive this right-handedness is?

via The Register