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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
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QUOTE OF THE DAY I: "Iraq must be a smashing success - and it's obviously driving the press absolutely crazy - when Bush can hold a presser with Talabani and field only Louisiana disaster relief questions." - an emailer approvingly cited by Glenn Reynolds yesterday.
"More than 100 people were killed in a string of bombings and ambushes in Iraq today in the worst large scale violence since May and June, and the Al Qaeda group in Iraq said that it was launching a nationwide campaign of suicide bombings in retaliation for an American-Iraqi military offensive against insurgents in the northern city of Tal Afar." - New York Times, today.
(Via Daily Dish.)
8:31:01 PM 
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Xeni Jardin:
Q: What's George Bush's position on Roe v. Wade?
A: He really doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans.
(Thanks, Leo Scanlon!)
(Via Boing Boing.)
8:22:55 PM
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Mark Frauenfelder:
 Hard to believe photos of President Bush writing a note asking Condoleeza Rice if it is possible for him to take a bathroom break during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.
Link and Link
(Via Boing Boing.)
8:21:55 PM
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Ars makes the excellent point that it's not necessarily Tivo's fault; their hands are tied at least to a certain extent about the content protection stuff. And the conclude with this:
So what are you going to do? Whine about TiVo, or contact
your representation in government?
Indeed. Click that link now!
8:18:23 PM
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This is a riot. The wingnuts are using "March of the Penguins" as a symbol for their conservative values! But they've forgotten that some penguins are gay!
On the conservative Web site Worldnetdaily.com, an opponent of abortion
wrote that the movie "verified the beauty of life and the rightness of
protecting it." At a conference for young Republicans, the editor of
National Review urged participants to see the movie because it promoted
monogamy. A widely circulated Christian magazine said it made "a strong
case for intelligent design."
What dopes.
Wendell and Cass, two penguins at the New York Aquarium in Coney
Island, Brooklyn, live in a soap opera world of seduction and intrigue.
Among the 22 male and 10 female African black-footed penguins in the
aquarium's exhibit, tales of love, lust and betrayal are the norm.
These birds mate for life. But given the disproportionate male-female
ratio at the aquarium, some of the females flirt profusely and dump
their partners for single males with better nests.
Wendell and
Cass, however, take no part in these cunning schemes. They have been
completely devoted to each other for the last eight years. In fact,
neither one of them has ever been with anyone else, says their keeper,
Stephanie Mitchell. But the partnership of Wendell and Cass adds drama
in another way. They're both male. That is to say, they're gay penguins.
They're probably the ones that are responsible for global warming.
12:58:30 PM
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"At times it is hard to ignore the comparisons between Baghdad
(where I was less than a month ago and have spent more of the last two
years) and New Orleans: The anarchy, the looting, some of it purely for
survival, some of it purely opportunistic. We watched a flatbed truck
drive by, a man on the back with an M-16 looking up on the roofs for
snipers, as is common in Iraq. Private security contractors were
stationed outside the Royal St. Charles Hotel; when asked if things
were getting pretty wild around the area, one of them replied, ‘Nope.
It's pretty Green Zone here.'"Surviving New Orleans, Mother Jones on-line).
11:03:36 AM
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