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Dashboard
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfXjY1zG4Rg[/youtube] Well we scheme and we scheme but we always blow it We’ve yet to crash, but we still might as well enjoy it Standing at a light switch to each east and west horizon, Every dawn you’re surprising, And the evening was consoling Saying “See it wasn’t quite as bad as” Well, it […]
Now that we created the monster, when do we attack them too?
So, we all know that around the time that Sadam started talking crazy with pegging oil to a basket currency the US all of a sudden need to rid him of his non-existent WMD’s and shove Democracy down his country’s throat with a few thousand megatons of whoop ass. And we needed Haliburton to secure […]
UnAmerican
During the Bush Administration, supporters of President Bush (the very same critics of President Obama today) called any criticism of the President’s policies to be treason and unAmerican. Obviously they were wrong. Vocal dissent over policy and politics is at the very nature of our Democracy, and right wing critics of President Obama today have […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-September 27, 2009
LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: In the Future, We’ll E-Mail Toast. Oh, and Live Forever. A Baby Boomer’s Dream, and IT COULD HAPPEN. The living forever part. Not sure how the Series of Tubes Called the Internet will adapt to melted butter: …or at least that’s what Ray Kurzweil thinks. He has spent his life inventing […]
Weekend Open Thread
A hidden treasure version of your open thread for your weekend. An unemployed amateur treasure hunter found the largest find of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found. Amazing photos at the link! Full story I would totally wear that! This is totally cool. There’s a website called The Museum of Animal Perspectives. Here’s the armadillo cam:
Don’t embarass me at dinner in the dam
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwN8VUeChU[/youtube] No matter where I go, I will not be embarrassed in front of a lady. Even in Amsterdam!
Wednesday Open Thread
A science-y version of your open thread today. Swine flu, yikes! We are already close to the number of cases as we normally have during the peak of flu season and we haven’t even entered the official flu season yet. (The red line is the current flu season and 98% of cases are H1N1 right […]
Are yourapeeins just more mature?
I’m beginning to wonder if they aren’t just a more mature culture than a majority of Americans. At least maybe as I walk around the city of Amsterdam it seems to be that way. But is this assesment more a result of folks that live in a big city and are more accepting of multiple […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Sept. 20 Edition
LEAD STORY: McClatchy Papers: Anti-Government Protests Racism By Another Name Of course it is, and it has been since the beginning of the Obama Administration, but the ‘respectable’ media has failed to tell the story. Until now: At about the same time (Nov. 5 after Obama had been declared the winner), newspaper Web sites were […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-First First-Person Edition
I’m back from Clown College rehab. Haven’t had much sleep, as the tortuous techniques inflicted upon me included aversion therapy right out of ‘A Clockwork Orange’. I am now officially totally averse to the ‘Old Ultra Third Person-ness’. I’ll tell my terrifying tale once I’ve gotten the proper perspective on it (I had no idea […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-Labor Day Weekend Edition
LEAD STORY-The (UK) Observer: Former Brazilian PM Urges End to ‘Disaster’, AKA “The War On Drugs” Seriously, does ANYone ANYwhere on the political spectrum agree that this unmitigated disaster makes sense? The human toll in many of the countries in Latin America and South America has been incalculable: “After decades of overflights, interdictions, spraying and raids […]
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