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Nooo. Not Janet Reno. The real one.

via WorldNetDaily

Well, our wireless internet service is down. So I am relying on what I can only describe as a system of hamsters and other rodents who apparently only operate at mind-numbingly slow speeds. Maybe they need bigger exercise balls.

Of course this is forcing me to do more work at my “desk”, which I mostly use just for holding papers that people hand to me.

Scrappleface solves NASA’s cork troubles. I wish they’d listen to him. Sandy’s waiting to get out there. If Biff is left on his own too long, it’s gonna get ugly.

That’s Supreme Court Of The United States…go here, here, here, here, and here to start.

Katherine Hepburn died yesterday. She was in a ton of great movies. Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, African Queen, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner. Great stuff. Go rent some.

This Washington Post article describes the many financial woes of the State of California. Maybe, just maybe, the State will be forced to mind its own business and get out of everyone’s way. I doubt it though.

UPDATE: From Scrappleface

So the triathelete in front of me at Starbucks said that the volunteers for yesterday’s triathalon were the greatest. There were 4000 of them, more on the waiting list. That’s more than at any other North American Ironman. It doesn’t surprise me at all. This city is just like that. Nicest people, always willing to help. Which is handy when you get stuck in snow. On the other hand, it probably means the Ironman will be back. And that’s really bad for my road rage problem. Stupid idiot Washingtonians not knowing where they’re going, driving slow, in my way.

MSS is going to write a book. I think he should stick to Public Relations, you gotta go with your strengths. Or possibly writing for the New York Times.

via Welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com.

More at 11:00

Interesting.

“I’m not a preacher and I’m not a pastor,” Gibson said. “But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize.”

Ever notice how the one time you don’t turn the vibrate on your cell phone your sister calls in the middle of church? Really cuts into your ability to mock others that it happens to.

It’s Saturday. It’s gotta be nice where you are if it’s this beautiful in Idaho. Go outside and do something. I’ll be reading Emma and working on my amazing North Idaho tan.

Take this you wacky enviromentalist vegan weirdos.

My favorite part:

Most of the deforestation takes place due to burning and logging to create farms, and the jump in 2002 suggests soy farming is growing rapidly in the area.

Yeah, I used to have a rfid problem, but Ortho cleared it right up.

Endangered Privacy via microchips.

Michelin, which manufactures 800,000 tires a day, is going to insert RFID tags into its tires. The tag will store a unique number for each tire, a number that will be associated with the car’s VIN (Vehicle Identification Number). Good for Michelin, and car manufacturers, and fighting crime. Potentially bad for you. Who will assure your privacy? Do you really want your car’s tires broadcasting your every move?

The European Central Bank may embed RFID chips in the euro note. Ostensibly to combat counterfeiters and money-launderers, it would also enable banks to count large amounts of cash in seconds. Unfortunately, such a move would also makes it possible for governments to track the passage of cash from individual to individual. Cash is the last truly anonymous way to buy and sell. With RFID tags, that anonymity would be gone. In addition, banks would not be the only ones who could in an instant divine how much cash you were carrying; criminals can also obtain power transceivers.

And it gets worse.

from The Register

Internet feeling sluggish to you? Check here.

via Slashdot. But you have until the end of next year. There’s nothing like planned obsolescence to keep your customers throwing their money at you.

Also from LFG.

Good news over at LGF.

New quotes from MSS over at Welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com

It’s Friday! How did you get this far with you’re day without reading your Victor Davis Hanson

Yet even as university professors and consultants cling to such regurgitated and discredited postcolonial theories and Chomskyite drivel, the American profile abroad has made such conventional exegesis obsolete.

And

Fools! The real danger is not that we are interventionists, but rather are on the verge of a weird insularity not seen since the 1920s–a paradox of still being engaged abroad but not in the usual manner of the past. The American Street is in a strangely revolutionary–read “fed-up”–mood. It is growing distant from Europe. It is angry with the Arab world especially, and it is tired with South Korea–and most whiny nations that either take billions of dollars in direct American aid or ankle-bite under the aegis of American arms.

And it gets better. Go, go now.

From Mark Steyn. I did not know this:

America is the only country in the Western world in which the consort of the head of government is given a semiformal role, an office and a staff.

I wonder if it’s because the presidential wives saw they could do some good and did it. And in the fine tradition of American wives, roped their husbands into helping them. You know instead of wasting time protesting they weren’t getting paid as much, treated as well, etc.

Instapundit will be on vacation. How will the world get its news?

I don’t know if this is true, but why would someone make this up? (Not the Hillary part, the second half.) via IMAO

Here.

I admit I don’t keep up with the latest swear words, but I have no idea what this is supposed to mean:

He said: “Some w***** in the crowd changed the whole match and you allowed it to happen. Well done. Well done.”

From the Telegraph.

Scrappleface imitates Spongebob (scroll down to the quotes).

…attempt to make my life a living heck here.

And the obligatory human-interest story.

From the Opinion Journal Best of the Web today:

Civil laws prohibiting consensual sodomy were an anachronism, and the country is well rid of them. Yet we’d say the court got it right in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), when it ruled that the U.S. Constitution is no bar to such laws. At the time the court decided Bowers, 24 states had sodomy laws; by yesterday only 13 did. By short-circuiting the political process, which seemed to be moving in the right direction anyway, the Supreme Court took away a little bit of Americans’ democratic freedom.

Rand Simberg of Transterrestrial Musings in his FoxNews commentary points out the problems with government-sponsored space exploration. Or whatever you would want to call what they’re doing out there. via Instapundit.

Darn.

Scrappleface: Particularly this

The Bleat.

Yep the rest of the news is discussions on the Supreme Court and it’s decisions. Click on any news site for more info concerning racism and/or gays.

This from the Mirror.via Welovetheiraqiinforamationminister.com. I think the name says it all.

This does not make me feel more like buying cd’s. Matter of fact, if the new REM boxed set were coming out sooner, I would purposely not go buy it. Neener-neener.

Those wacky kids at Samizdata.

Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too! Mecca of Dr. Pepper lovers. via the Corner. And for a guy that can’t stand the stuff Stuttaford’s rather obsessed. I say he’s a closet Pepper.

UPDATE: Stuttaford denies it in an email. Lacking further proof I am obliged to believe him. I guess I’ll have to stalk him to get a snapshot of him downing a Dr. Pepper.

The Far Reaching Ministry team in Sudan could use your prayers. From the Far Reaching Ministry prayer update:

The biggest need for prayer right now is for the team that is in the Nuba Mountains in Central Sudan re-equipping the Chaplains there with the
Word and new uniforms and their pay checks.

I’m looking for a copy of the classic show “San Diego At Large” and all I can find is that the guy that played Skippy was the millioniare on “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire”. Or whatever it’s called. Talk about weird.

This makes me proud to be from San Diego county.

The time-warping Volokh Conspiracy has now vs. then on Gephart’s statements.

The Telegraph has a report on a program designed to sift through corporate and political BS. Finally.

UPDATE: Nanotechnology keeps smelly feet at bay. There’s always a silver lining!

Right on, brotha!

More on the continuing saga of Biff and Sandy going to Mars.

John Derbyshire has an excellent piece on the future of the Anglican Church if they continue on their current path. The warning could be well taken by most liberal denominations.

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame discusses tech job outsourcing in his TechCentralStation column. This is the part I like:

With all sympathy to Mr. Paris, people usually conclude that foreign competition has “gone too far” when it threatens their job. (And if we could import foreign politicians to compete with domestic ones, you’d see tariffs and protectionism that would make Napoleon’s Continental System look like free trade.)

Ain’t it the truth.

via Instapundit. Atheist=Bright. Incomprehensibly stupid.

Is Baghdad Bob back? I know I could use a laugh.

UPDATE: Scrappleface has more.

From CNN:

Some local villagers have claimed the people killed in the attack were sheep smugglers. Pentagon officials said they might have been smugglers, but said U.S. intelligence strongly suggests high-level Iraqis, not sheep, were their cargo.

Why do people smuggle sheep? Are sheep illegal in Syria? “Hey, buddy, I’ll give you $100 a head to get these Suffolks across the border…”

Maybe it’ll trick people into thinking it’s like a Jaguar or Mercedes if we just give it a couple of letters and numbers. Yeah…good idea…. They’ll never know.

Since we archive with Shorten this is interesting to me. Not interesting enough that I rabidly follow the discussion, but Slashdot has an discussion on Phish converting their music to FLAC. Naturally a lot of the /. community misses the point, but there’s some good info in there. Technologies come and go, mostly, but I don’t think it’s a big enough improvement to convert from shorten.

From the Telegraph. Belgium embarasses itself. I really like the picture of Rumsfeld.

I was going to do a diatribe on his asininity. But Scrappleface does it funnier. And nothing bothers self-important people more than being laughed at. Well, maybe not nothing, but it really bothers them.

UPDATE: Instapundit has it all. Naturally.

Interesting. And it keeps going throughout the day. Where do I stand? I’m not sure. I don’t think the laws should be there, but neither do I think that we should encourage sin. I mostly agree with what Stanley Kurtz’s been writing on this. Quite frankly, thinking about it grosses me out. I think I’ll bow out and leave it to the experts.

UPDATE: This is where compromise will get you.

Disclaimer: The last thing I saw them in was Down From the Mountain DVD.

Allison Kraus new do=bad. The one in this picture is somewhere in between.
Jerry Douglas goatee and glasses=good
Dan Tyminski still looks like Riker.

Okay, this is almost as stupid as getting fired for smoking. Why would anyone vote for someone who promises to ignore the spirit of the Constitution, if not the actual letter? More outrage tomorrow.

And a MAJOR ANNOYANCE.

From the Press

“It’s going to inconvenience some people,” said Mayor Sandi Bloem. “But a lot of fine people worked very hard to make this event happen. The benefits outweigh the negatives.”

My eye. I’m the one that has to try to drive through this mess. Look, I’ve been blocked off from civilization 3 times in the last month. Why don’t they run somewhere else, like Hawaii, it’ll be warmer there.

I can still taste it in my mind. That’s some evil stuff. I hope this doesn’t scar me for life.

It seems the Pope has apologized to the Bosnians.

On a one-day visit to the Bosnian Serb city of Banja Luka, the Pope asked for mercy for “the sins committed against humanity, human dignity and freedom, also by children of the Catholic Church”.

A little background:

Hatred between the two communities dates from long before the recent civil war to the time of the Nazi occupation and is originally rooted in theological differences dating back centuries.

In 1942 a Franciscan friar known as “Brother Satan” led a brutal and particularly bloodthirsty massacre against the ethnic Serb residents of Banja Luka.

Friar Tomislav Filipovic Majstorovic headed Croat forces of the Nazi-allied Ustashe regime as they rampaged through the streets of the town, killing more than 2,000 people.

The fiercely ideological Majstorovic is said to have intoned the words “This is the way I baptise these bastards in the name of God” as he slashed the throats of Orthodox children, earning the grisly soubriquet Fra Sotona or Brother Satan.

He later went on to become commandant of the Ustashe concentration camp at Jasenovac, where he continued to kill at will.

The pope’s actions don’t exactly match his words.

Relatives of those who died at his hands expressed outrage yesterday that the Pope celebrated Mass at the site of the Petricevac monastery, where the monk lived before the Banja Luka atrocity.

I wonder what Dave Hunt will have to say about this.

This is just great stuff.

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing for the majority, said, “There’s no way we can make up for the Dred Scott decision, but we all feel better now that Clarence gets extra credit for his vote”.

Just check in often.

…I knew you could. This is the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while. Which is saying a lot. Who wrote that law? And who passed it? I wonder what they’re not telling us.

Dave Barry, as usual, rocks.

Scrappleface funny. Here and here.

Stanley Kurtz continuing to defend marriage against homosexual inroads. Scroll down to Friday for more.

Mark Steyn on Iran. Things are looking better and better. Unless, of course, you want people to live under religious oppression, publicly planning to wipe another nation off the map. via Instapundit

Update: Michael Leeden via The Corner.

Okay, so far I haven’t kept my promise, but tonight we’re going to sushi. I’ve never had sushi before. I hope I like it. I like fish and I like raw meat (beef, of course, you can’t eat raw chicken or pork, everyone knows that), I don’t see a problem.

UPDATE: Sushi is surprisingly filling. We had California Rolls, Spider Rolls, and Eel. I was hoping for something more fishy. Next time I’ll try something more. It was more rice and seaweed tasting. And the pickled ginger, that was nasty. I understand the purpose but I’d rather have an Altoid to cleanse the palate. I’m not a huge fan of ginger in the first place, and eating it pickled was a lot more than I was ready for.

We sat at the sushi bar, it was interesting to watch. Some guy was trying to take Japanese to the chef, who talked English back to him. And then someone sat right next to me, not cool. I don’t like having to listen to stranger’s problems.

To conclude: Sushi=not fishy.

Nothing. I didn’t go to Sunday School. I don’t even know what Sunday School is. But in church today, Acts 7, I learned that telling smart people what they already know and pointing out where they’re wrong can get you killed.

And Moses and Joseph were types of Jesus. Oh, and the Jews always catch on the second time a deliverer comes. Aren’t we all like that? Always missing that first chance to not mess up and suffering because of it.

Okay, in honor of the sabbath, I’m gonna go take a nap.

Okay, that was fun. And by fun I mean time-consuming. Even my cool ThinkGeek shirt didn’t help me much.

So, to get the blog rolling, I get to go to dinner tonight at White House Grill. The best resturaunt I have ever, ever, ever eaten at. If you’re in Post Falls, Idaho get off at the Spokane Street exit and it’s on the corner. Mmm-mmm. Gyro, with fries would be my recommendation. Get the French Onion Soup, too. Well, get anything, you can’t go wrong. Look like a pro and get the Spring Bowl. Rice, garbonzo beans, chicken, veggies, feta cheese, Mmm-mmm. Not on the menu, locals only, nudge-nudge. Don’t wear your jacket, unless you plan to wash it right away, because you will smell like garlic when you leave.

I promise I won’t tell you every day what’s for dinner. I just thought I’d share today.

Because I want to see what it looks like when the columns are properly aligned. Then I’m gonna go see what I remember from my html class 7 years ago and try to make this page look like I want it to. And I would also like world peace. Ooh, drag and drop editing, these Movable Type people are superrad. They give me this incredibly powerful program, or whatever you call it, for free, and provide plenty of support. Nice. The world needs more people like them.

Class dismissed. Because who on the earth would be reading this? Comments are off and likely to remain so. It looks so tacky to have Comments: 0 at the bottom of every post. So if you want to make a comment email me: kristin at kristinhoppe dot com. If it’s interesting or relevant or fisking-worthy, I’ll post it. Heh. I eagerly, but patiently, await my first one.

You know, this isn’t as easy as they make it look. Sort of like watching Michael Jordan play basketball. When he does it, it looks easy. When you go try it, you fall down and have to go get the basketball out of the bushes. Which explains the difference in our salaries, I think.

This is only a test. Had this been a real webpage you would have seen something like this.

Update: Then you can go back and fix things that are stupid. But why?