Archive for November, 2006

The Wisdom of Sir Elton

Posted by Moonage on 30 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Shock and Awe

Found this exchange via my buddies at Independent Sources:
Hello Rocky,What do you think of Elton John’s desire to ban all religions?Tiffany SwisherJacksonville, FL
Rocky Responds:As a rule, Tiffany, I don’t worry about anything coming out of Elton John’s mouth that isn’t written by Bernie Taupin.

That was funny, but there’s more to the story that I did [...]

Massachusetts v EPA

Posted by Moonage on 29 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: The Legal Process

A few years ago, several organizations joined forces to sue the federal government to force the EPA to control greenhouse gases. Although they’ve never won in court, it has now made it to the Supreme Court and is being argued today. The group that sued to force the EPA to force controls on [...]

Democrats Call for U.S. Troop Pullout from Lebanon

Posted by Moonage on 27 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Humor

I LOVE Scott Ott.  I really do.  This guy has a take on the world I wish I had the time to ponder myself.  Gotta read this one.  You really, really, do:
….As everyone knows, said Rep. Jack Murtha, D-PA, a former Marine, the American military is the cause of terrorism and sectarian tensions around the [...]

Pondering the election turnout?

Posted by Moonage on 27 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: National Politics

The guys at Powerline put some time into analyzing the turnout for the last election and came up with this:

They immediately postulated some reasons for the drop-off.  Here’s mine:
92 was a presidential election year, 94 not.  96 was a presidential election year, 98 not.  2000 was a presidential election year, 2002 not.  2004 was [...]

A Real Election Fraud Situation

Posted by Moonage on 27 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Politics

Every single election, people all over the country whine that the election was fixed, rigged, or outright stolen.  Pretty much every time, it leads nowhere.  However, I have stumbled across a fairly local race that does show that sometimes mistakes ( or worse ) happens and the election is definitely in doubt.  Here’s a good [...]

PETA is out of control, again

Posted by Moonage on 27 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Political Correctness

"Those animals are subject to all sorts of terrible fates in some cases," Vergerio said. "Animals have been stolen and slaughtered, they’ve been raped, they’ve escaped from the nativity scenes and have been struck by cars and killed. Just really unfathomable things have happened to them."

That was in a letter PETA sent to Reverend Jason [...]

Real Big Brothers in action

Posted by Moonage on 27 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Political Correctness

People always claim the current President is Big Brother.  Right now a lot of people claim Bush is.  Bush doesn’t affect your daily life all that much.  At the same time, people often ignore the obvious efforts of others to inflict Big Brother ( ie, thought control ), over us.  Here’s one such case that [...]

Malachi Ritscher

Posted by Moonage on 27 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: People

 

At 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 four days before an election caused a seismic shift in Washington politics Ritscher, a frequent anti-war protester, stood by an off-ramp in downtown Chicago near a statue of a giant flame, set up a video camera, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire.
This man killed himself in [...]

The Conservative Thought Police

Posted by Moonage on 21 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Opinions

Caught this little bit on Volokh:
….Jonathan Adler cites evidence that the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think thank has "banned" conservatives and libertarians critical of the Bush administration from its events. I don’t know enough to comment on Heritage’s alleged banning of Bruce Bartlett and Ryan Sager (referenced in the links in Jonathan’s post). If [...]

Nancy Grace sued for wrongful death

Posted by Moonage on 21 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: The Media

Per The Smoking Gun:
The parents of a woman who committed suicide shortly after a grilling by Nancy Grace are filing a lawsuit against the TV host, claiming that their daughter was driven to her death by the hard-charging former prosecutor. In a wrongful death lawsuit to be filed today in Florida, the parents of Melinda [...]

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