Posts Tagged ‘People’

New York City stinks

January 8th, 2007 | No Comments

Been following this today: New York officials evacuated a number of buildings and shut down some trains after a mysterious gaslike odor was reported Monday. A New York Police Department spokesman said an air quality test determined that the air is not hazardous, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said there is no indication [...]

Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to endorse someone

December 4th, 2006 | No Comments

John Bolton received this rousing letter of support from Congressman Scott Garrett on Friday: Today, I sent a letter to Senators Richard Lugar and Joseph Biden, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urging the consideration and confirmation of John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.  John Bolton€™s aggressive advocacy [...]

Malachi Ritscher

November 27th, 2006 | No Comments

  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. €śThis man killed [...]

Immediate expectations from the 2006 elections

November 9th, 2006 | No Comments

A lot of people are reading things into this week’s elections. Some people claimed these elections are nothing but a national referendum on Bush and/or the Republicans. As such, I posted my “anticipated results” from the elections a few days ago. I’m still sticking with those “predictions” post-election. Now, here’s what happens when “national” expectations [...]

John Kerry doing it again

October 31st, 2006 | 18 Comments

In 2004, President Bush’s ratings were totally in the basement. John Kerry was trashing Bush in the polls, and the media was laughing at Bush’s ineptitude. John Kerry then went to war with some former Vietnam vets that he absolutely would not get over. He hounded and hounded and hounded that one issue and basically [...]

ACLU endorses the Patriot Act?

October 30th, 2006 | No Comments

Well, not exactly.  But they did drop a lawsuit against it citing "improvements to the law".  Here’s the ONLY part that was changed that appease the ACLU: The lawsuit, filed in July 2003 on behalf of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, Mich., and five other nonprofit groups, was the first legal challenge to [...]

WTO wants to legalize gambling where gambling is illegal

October 30th, 2006 | No Comments

In a ruling that could open the United States to offshore Internet gambling, a World Trade Organization panel Wednesday said Washington should drop prohibitions on Americans placing bets in online casinos. In its final 287-page report, the WTO panel confirmed the preliminary ruling it issued in March in a dispute pitting the United States against [...]

Rewarding Stupidity

October 30th, 2006 | No Comments

I really can’t believe this one: A federal jury awarded $24.2 million to two men who were severely burned by electrical wires when they trespassed onto railroad property and climbed atop a rail car. OK, you’ve got these very large vehicles that travel very, very, fast.  You’ve got these bare wires that connect to these [...]

Google officially gets political

October 25th, 2006 | No Comments

People have accused Google of allowing their political leanings to affect some of their content searches.  Google of course denied the allegations.  But, it was kind of obvious something was amiss.  The reason I yanked Googe AdSense was because no matter what I wrote about Bush, their "unbiased" searches would ALWAYS come up with something [...]

Is Michael Fox acting?

October 24th, 2006 | 11 Comments

Was reading a trashy New York gossip rag that was talking about Rush attacking Michael J. Fox for over-acting his Parkinson’s symptoms for political gain.  Well, here is the video in question via Claire McCaskill: Here’s Fox circa June 2006: The problem Rush has is just making the allegation is distasteful to just about anyone [...]