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On constipated thinking.. Bonus points if you know where that term comes from. It describes a thought process which is stuck in limbo due to lack of fact and reason. Like, most every suggestion made by your average liberal. A good example of it can be found in the comments attached to this post by Moxie. (And no, I'm... [Capitalist Lion]
Yeah, and also think about how much fun it'll be to pay $20 bucks to get across town by bus, and pay 50-100% more on anything you purchase in a store due to the skyrocketing costs imposed shipping companies. What, you think all that tasty grocery store food and spiffy new electronics just magically appear? No, it's hauled by bigass trucks.
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Dumb People. Have you ever read something and just thought the guy had to be joking? That there is absolutely no way any person in their right mind could really believe that? Sometimes I run across people that I really think have mental issues. People who think the Republican Party is behind everything. [Dog Snot Diaries]
6:23:32 PM
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Bush's Speech at Whitehall. Here's the terrific speech President Bush gave today at Whitehall Palace, outlining in more detail his radical vision for change in the Middle East, a region that has been for ... [little green footballs]
5:06:26 PM
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Boomer Baby
Great web site with lots of memories for us old farts. The car below is what I learned to drive in at the age of 12. We start young in North Dakota. Captain Poop
 1953 Chevy
Although I was too young to remember them, I now own a '53 Chevy. I show it all the time. I rebuilt the whole drive train,all new brake system.it's a stock 235 blueflame 6. three on the tree. i redid the interior slighty custom. My wife and i have a lot of fun and meet a lot of great people. our best friends have a '56 buick roadmaster. I won some nice plaques and 15 or so trophies. i drove from PA to TN for a show (12 hours) once. I got a trophy at the Wildwood, NJ Broadwalk Classic Car Show. The women of the sponsors for the show voted my '53 Chevy, "Best Back Seat Memories." --- Russ and Linda Smith, Easton, PA, 1949, 1953
5:03:40 PM
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THE END OF WACKO JACKO?. Michele has some thoughts and a scenario. Me? I thought he got away with it back in 1992 or 93 or whenever it was. I'm glad the law changed that compels a child to testify. And I'm glad that the... [Discount Blogger]
Michele Jackson may be a great entertainer to some but his lack of good judgement is appalling. If these accusations are true then he has no one to blame but himself. After the last incident he should have told his staff that no underage person even be allowed on the property. If they were the entire time on grounds would be videotaped and certainly no overnight visits unless the childs parents were present and the child slept with them. Sorry Jacko but if this is true then you are indeed Wacko! Captain Poopdeck
4:20:12 PM
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Disgusting Link of the Day. The anti-war militants at Britain's Warp Records have brought the "peace movement" to a new low, by editing together speeches by George Bush into an unfunny, amazingly twisted piece of ... [little green footballs]
Don't even think of looking at this video unless you have a broadband connection! If you have dialup and you still want to see it ... go to the store, wash the car, take a nap, then take a two week vacation. Captain Poop
4:01:17 PM
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From The Wall Street Journal.....
London's Guardian yesterday published a series of open letters to the president from various Englishmen and Americans. Many were hostile--the Guardian is a left-wing paper--but we like this one from novelist Frederick Forsyth (ellipsis in original):
You will find yourself assailed on every hand by some pretty pretentious characters collectively known as the British left. They traditionally believe they have a monopoly on morality and that your recent actions preclude you from the club. You opposed and destroyed the world's most blood-encrusted dictator. This is quite unforgivable.
I beg you to take no notice. The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin.
It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century. Broadly speaking, it hates your country first, mine second.
Eleven years ago something dreadful happened. Maggie was ousted, Ronald retired, the Berlin wall fell and Gorby abolished communism. All the left's idols fell and its demons retired. For a decade there was nothing really to hate. But thank the Lord for his limitless mercy. Now they can applaud Saddam, Bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il . . . and hate a God-fearing Texan. So hallelujah and have a good time.
Bush seems to have taken Forsyth's advice. Good for him--and good for America.
3:14:43 PM
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Anti-American Marketing [Wall Street Journal]
 A few months ago Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman published a collection of his screeds from the New York Times op-ed page, titled "The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century." The cover is a rather dull affair: The author's name and subtitle appear in black letters against a white background, while the title is in white on an orange background. One corner of the orange rectangle appears to be dogeared, which we guess is supposed to be symbolic of the book's title, though it doesn't look like much of an "unraveling."
The British edition of Krugman's book, however, has a lurid cover, one that appears designed to appeal to a virulently anti-American readership. (Click on the nearby thumbnail to see a bigger copy.) It shows a picture of the president of the United States holding a wad of money. His mouth is stitched shut, and the word ENRON is written on his forehead. Over to the right is the vice president, with a somewhat Hitlerian mustache drawn on his upper lip and the words GOT OIL? scrawled on his forehead. In the middle is a picture with a caption referring to Krugman's former boss: KENNETH LAY WEF ALUMNUS THEY ARE ALL LOOTING THE WORLD.
The British edition also has a far more confrontational subtitle: "From Boom to Bust in Three Scandalous Years." The funniest thing about it, though, is the blurb that appears under the author's name: " 'Everything Krugman has to say is smart, important and fun to read.'--The New York Times Book Review." We guess the Times has more credibility over there, where people are less familiar with it and don't know that it routinely publishes wacko screeds by former Enron advisers.
3:10:42 PM
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BALLSY CORRECTIONS AT THE TIMES Thanks Ben.
Oh, and on the same corrections page, there's a bit about the Times mischaracterizing attitudes by Europeans about the United States as being about President Bush personally. Naturally, they were not good attitudes. And the Times mischaracterized them not just once, but twice.
3:06:40 PM
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Charles M. Schulz. "Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement." [Quotes of the Day]
8:51:43 AM
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Today's The Day.
 (And in case you've been living on the planet Manhattan for the past two years, here's where you can learn about it all.) No more posting today -- I'm out buying ammo, and shooting it before it... [Kim du Toit]
8:45:37 AM
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Picture of the Day 
The Captain and wife take in a car show!
8:35:29 AM
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