Be happy, you aren’t these people.
(by way of Brian Flemming)
You aren’t filled with as much fear and hate as they are.
That said…
While Phelps little inbred clan (can you spot the one with the third head?) tells a chilling fact. Most religions, if not all, basically believe what Phelps’ believes.
They are right.
You are wrong.
You are going to hell.
The only difference is how active a part the true believers have to play.
Sadness.
Tags:religion
Above the spillways of Bonneville Dam, Darrell Schmidt patrolled with his shotgun, drawing a bead on furry brown California sea lion heads popping up from the Columbia River and blasting off a beanbag round.All spring he was part of a nonlethal, and not very effective, effort to keep the federally protected animals from gobbling threatened spring chinook salmon as they schooled up at the dam’s fish ladders en route to upriver spawning grounds.
Of course, the REASON these fish are threatened is because of man’s overfishing.
Am I the only one who sees the parallel between this and how we are dealing with global warming and emerging economies?
Tags:Global Warming
Rudy was too busy making money hand over fist to bother with the war
He cited “previous time commitments” in a letter explaining his decision to quit, and a look at his schedule suggests why — the sessions at times conflicted with Giuliani’s lucrative speaking tour that garnered him $11.4 million in 14 months.
(from newsday, actually)
How sad is it that Mitt is looking like best in show?
Can’t get your car? Try rebooting
It amazes me that some folks have zero understanding of how we relate to software, technology, and it’s creators.
The robot that parks cars at the Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, New Jersey, trapped hundreds of its wards last week for several days. But it wasn’t the technology car owners had to curse, it was the terms of a software license.The garage is owned by the city; the software, by Robotic Parking of Clearwater, Florida.
In the course of a contract dispute, the city of Hoboken had police escort the Robotic employees from the premises just a few days before the contract between both parties was set to expire. What the city didn’t understand or perhaps concern itself with, is that they sent the company packing with its manuals and the intellectual property rights to the software that made the giant robotic parking structure work.
Tags:software Robot Garage
End Looms for Iraq Arms Inspection Unit
I really thought this was a joke…
What I find funny is that, every once in a while, you’ll see some delusional twit make some statement about how WMDs of some flavor were found.
And I know that’s simply untrue.
How do I know?
Because if WMDs had been found, the White House would have been singing and dancing in the streets. Thats how I know.
The Runaway Train That Hit Scooter Libby
(through atrios, and more than a few others)
Is there any way that this can be construed as something other than elitest at best and racist at worst?
As any prosecutor knows — and Martha Stewart can attest — white-collar types tend to have a morbid fear of jail.
He might as well have said “Well, those darkies, they do love pickin’ cotton. That ain’t no white man’s job.”
Tags:Richard Cohen Scooter Libby racism
Sex with a woman who is drunk may soon be rape
Might be happening in the UK soon.
Now, there’s no question that slipping a girl a ‘mickey’ is rape.
And, there’s no question that women shouldn’t just ‘walk it off’ or ‘lay there and try to enjoy it’, as some morons would advise.
And, there’s no question that many women are victims of ‘date rape’ (I fucking hate that term. Raping someone is raping someone. It doesn’t matter if you know them or bought them dinner first).
But what does this say about personal responsibility?
Doesn’t this make it as if all women are, basically, victims?
FURTHER, if the man is drunk as well, why isn’t it the woman’s job to tell him ‘no’?
Or is it only women who lose their ability to consent?
Think of what this is saying about women.
Maybe they are the fragile, helpless creatures from some Dickens’ novel, fainting away with the vapors or at the sight of a bared chest.
Even worse…if a woman, after she’s gotten drunk, is no longer able to give consent, and can’t be held responsible for ending up in bed with someone, how can you hold her responsible for, say, getting into her car and running someone over? She’s obviously completely incapable of judging the potential results of, well, anything she does.
How can you be responsible for some of your actions, but not for others?
Bush Proposes Cutting Spending For The Armed Forces
Most recently, Democrats added $17 billion to an Iraq war funding bill, money not sought by Bush. All told, Democrats plan spending increases for annual agency budgets of about $23 billion above the White House budget request.House GOP conservatives have pledged to come up with the votes needed to uphold any Bush vetoes.
“I am not alone in my opposition,” Bush said, stressing that 147 Republicans in the House have pledged to stand with him. “These 147 members are more than the one-third needed to sustain my veto of any bills that spend too much.”
But this is the funny bit…
“The American people do not want to return to the days of tax-and-spend policies,” Bush said in his radio address.
See, the thing is, ‘tax and spend’, whether you approve of it or not, at least makes sense, mathematically.
For the past 6 years, BushCo have been behind a policy of ’spend and lower taxes’, which a 3rd grader could find the logical flaw in.
Tags:Bush
YES, destroying emails, using RNC emails for government business IS a crime
I only hope Congress can actually follow through.
Tags:Karl Rove Destroyed Emails RNC
How Democrats Keep losing
Is there ANYONE out there who would have voted for Bush if Al Gore had made the following speech regarding Columbine, after Bush’s non-answer?
Governor, I walked with those shocked and grieving parents, teachers, and children at Columbine; I shed tears with them; and I delivered a eulogy that Sunday by their graveside. I remembered with them the heroism of their beloved coach and teacher Dave Sanders, who bravely led so many to safety but never made it out of the building himself. I remembered with them a young girl named Cassie Bernall, whose final words were “Yes, I do believe in God.”I just told you how the woman who bought the guns that took the lives of Dave Sanders and Cassie Bernall wouldn’t have done it if she’d just had to fill out a form and show a photo ID. And you still can’t feel for Coach Sanders’ wife and children, who’ll never wrap their loving arms around him again? You still can’t weep for Cassie’s parents? You still think it’s sensible to require someone to show a photo ID to cash a check but that it’s too much to ask that they show an ID to buy a handgun?
Americans do have a clear choice in this election. And it is about a culture of life. They can do something to honor the lives of those who died that day at Columbine. Or they can vote for a man who, as governor of Texas, signed a law allowing people to bring guns into church.
