Archive for September, 2005

Can’t Help But Laugh

What a combo: Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life + crystal meth.
“Shooting Suspect’s Hostage: I Gave Him Meth”

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Wining and Dining

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Gov. Jim “Needles” Doyle, last week, spent about $400 wining and dining reporters. He got a pass until Jessica McBribe pointed out the media double standard in coverage of him and Scott Walker. I had no problem with Doyle’s picnic or Walker’s ticket giveaway. I think it’s preposterous for reporters to be “paid off” with […]

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Katrina Mayhem Myths

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It’s been three weeks since the levees broke, and New Orleans was turned into a lake. One of the more dramatic stories was of the literal raping, killing, and pillaging that happened at the Superdome and convention center. It’s interesting that no witnessness or alleged victims have come forward to personify the horrors that supposedly […]

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Better Late Than Never

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AnyLetter hosts this week’s late Carnival of the Capitalists. The tardiness shouldn’t take away for its always high quality content.

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Victory

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Wisconsin 23, Michigan 20
“Luck of the Draw“

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Protest Freaks

I watched C-SPAN’s coverage of CindyFest 2005. These goofs couldn’t help themselves. The protest was suppose to be against the Iraq War, but Palestine had to be mentioned along with globalization, Cuba, and gay marriage. Surprisingly in the time I watched no one wanted to “Free Mumia!” He must be passe. The Cuban 5 is […]

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TimesReject

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The NY Times‘ experiment of selling access to their op-ed writers will fail. That I agree with Tom Maguire. However, Maguire compares the failure to New Coke. Just one problem: only us internet news junkies know about TimesReject. How much of a debacle is it if hardly anyone notices?
“Tierney Gets Results! (Never Again…)”

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Signs of the Times

The anti-war, anti-American Bush bashers tried really, really hard to focus only on the Iraq War. Dr. Rusty Shackleford sharp eyes shows not everyone could pull it off. And notice the grin on Cindy Sheehan. It isn’t so much a job well done as the high from being the center of attention once again.
“Conspiracy Theories […]

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Rita Survivor

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Someone stayed in Houston and survived Hurricane Rita.
“Thankfully, Not Much to See Up Here”

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Hall of Shame

When watching Cindy Sheehan prance around our nation’s capital this weekend protesting the Iraq War remember these “proud” moments in her recent past:

Cindy blaming Hurricane Katrina on President Bush’s environmental policies. I didn’t know she was an environmental scientist.
Cindy confusing Hollywood make belief with reality when Martin Sheen visited Camp Casey:
We ended the day reciting […]

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Cindy’s Radical, Anti-War Friends

On this weekend’s anti-war protests, James Joyner writes,
The organizers are mostly from the radical, America-hating fringe while the overwhelming majority of the crowd are surely either hippie wannabes or honorable citizens simply gathering in peaceful protest against a very controversial war. One wonders, though, how the Post would cover a pro-war event sponsored by similarly […]

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Stop Giving Clothes

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Tee Bee wants people to donate to a Hurricane Katrina clothing drive. Unfortunately clothes are one catagory of relief charities have plenty of:
So many truckloads of clothes have poured into Baton Rouge since Hurricane Katrina that volunteers from the St. Vincent de Paul Society gave away 100,000 pieces of clothing in 10 days, says Mike […]

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A Contrast

What a way to ruin the National Book Festival. Bring in a bunch of America bashers with the Stallinist ANSWER as chief organizers. It’s impressive that President Bush did take seriously the concerns of the thousands of protesters coming to Washington, D.C. He said they have “good intentions, but their position is wrong.”
Contrast that […]

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Moving Millions

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With highways outside Houston turned into parking lots I’m surprised no one has blamed President Bush. But in all seriousness about the only thing Texas officials could have done was to implement contraflow sooner, and that might not have done much good.
With Hurricane Rita losing steam a lot of evacuees will regret leaving town. Many […]

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Illness Update

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I slept so long today that I got tired of sleeping. Yes, it is possible to be in a nice, comfy bed for so long that you just want to get up and move around just for the sake of doing so. Thanks for all your concern about my sickness. Yesterday, the doctor told me […]

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