Saturday, September 20, 2003

-------------------- Points to Ponder. "My arms are too short to box with God" --Johnny Cash "Recently, 46 leading climate experts wrote an open letter to Canada's National Post on June 3 claiming that the that the Kyoto Protocol 'lacks credible science.' Many other scientists share the same view.  [American RealPolitik] ....be sure to read the whole thing.  Thats an order from the Poopdeck Captain! (LP) 11:55:16 PM

--------------------  "My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 : kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc." Translation: "My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend, and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York. It's a great place." Amateur Radio Operators have been doing this on CW (code) forever to make things go faster.  The teens of today think they invented it. (LP) 11:42:53 PM

-------------------- Morning Comics. [American RealPolitik] 11:19:29 PM

-------------------- Ronald Reagan Lost Iowa and Arnold Can Lose California. Making Sense By Michael Reagan If Arnold Schwarzenegger is serious about becoming governor of California he had better climb down from his celebrity perch and start acting like a candidate.... [American RealPolitik] 11:17:04 PM

-------------------- Naughty, naughty Arafat!  [little green footballs] 4:50:49 PM

-------------------- Rapist Says 30 Years Too Harsh.  [Right We Are!] 3:21:59 PM

--------------------  MICHAEL BARONE COLUMN notes a lack of media perspective on Iraq [Instapundit.com] 1:03:57 PM

--------------------  Nonsense, it's all a Zionist-Republican plot.  [Instapundit.com] 12:57:18 PM

-------------------- Uncle Bill finds he has some pocket change...... 12:50:03 PM

-------------------- Rabid Donkeys  This anniversary passed with the nation distressed by the media's out-of-perspective fixation on body counts and bogus Vietnam analogies. The Democrats have only exacerbated the panic by auditioning for the party's role as the most delirious Bush-hater.  Profiles in courage? Hardly. Not even a profile in statesmanship. 12:35:27 PM

-------------------- Ashcroft Caves to "Hysterical" Librarians. On his fence-mending tour of the nation last week Attorney General John Ashcroft said librarians were "hysterical" about the U.S.A.... [Blogcritics] 11:52:57 AM

--------------------  Indian Motorcycle closes its doors  ... again!  The first time around, Indian Motorcycle lasted more than 50 years. This time, it lasted five. On Friday, Indian closed the factory in Gilroy where it made heavyweight cruisers and other motorcycles, telling its 380 employees that a deal with a new investor had fallen through. 9:07:47 AM

-------------------- Dave Winer a little upset with Ito and rightfully so I might add. Speaking of people who could be friends who are full of shit -- today Joi Ito sings a well-sung but false song about Microsoft screwing with nascent standards. Joi, in RSS-land, MS is playing fair and square, so far (and so are AOL and Yahoo, btw). The people who are pissing in the soup are people you don't have the guts to criticize. You're in their blogroll, they're in yours. Dig deeper dear Joi, really disassemble the lunacy of our little world, and do what you can to unravel it. Then, when and if Microsoft screws with us, you'll have some credibility. Right now you haven't got a leg to stand on. [Scripting News] This is a good example of the self - cleansing nature of the net.  On the one hand a person can say anything they want with no editor to worry about.  On the other hand they have to be ready to defend what they said or retract it when others call them on it.  If a major media newscaster puts out a load of crap on the six o'clock news we will probably never know it was a load of crap.  (LP) 9:04:58 AM

-------------------- Kiss of Death for Dean! Carter says he sees some of himself in Howard Dean . Jimmy Carter says he sees a little of himself in insurgent Democratic White House candidate Howard Dean. In an appearance taped to air Friday night on CNN's "Larry King Live," Carter says former Vermont Gov. Dean visited his home... [Zogby Blog] 7:08:55 AM

-------------------- Making the Connection. Guess who else was convinced of the connection between Iraq and al Qaeda? The Clinton administration. Here's a State Department press release from November 4, 1998, on the indictments of Osama bin Laden and Muhammad Atef for the bombings of the US Embassies in Africa. [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast] 1:05:55 AM

-------------------- Ok.....the stupid "Talk Like a Pirate Day" is over.  Thank God or Allah or Buddha or whoever the deity of the day is!  In the first place, there is no one alive who knows how pirates talked.  The only reason we think they talked like that is because thats the way the director of old black and white talkie pirate movies told the actors to talk.  More than likely they talked just like everyone else in the country they came from.   Don't mind me folks.  I'm just wired on a whole pot of the Peets Coffee I received in the mail today. (LP) 12:53:07 AM

-------------------- I received one of these already today.  Whats really interesting is that it came from myself.  Right!  I have no Outlook address book that it could have greaned the address from.  I deleted it when I moved over to Moz Mail.  That means it was gleaned from someone else who has me in their address book. (LP) 12:27:01 AM

-------------------- Thanks Canada!  Way to watch out for the country that assures you stay free. WAMY Runs Jihad Camps in Ontario. The World Assembly of Muslim Youth, founded by the nephew of Osama Bin Laden in the US, is operating openly in the Mississauga area of Ontario, running jihad camps for ... [little green footballs] 12:11:29 AM