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And that's that. - 17 January 2008
Jan. 17th, 2008 12:48 amAnd so, at the end of Appreciate a Dragon Day, I’m treating myself to chocolate. And giving everyone The Library of Congress' Flickr page. It has more than 3000 images in the public domain. Have a look. If you want something to squeeze, though, Squishables might be just up your alley.
In international news, human rights groups are continuing their appeals for Iran to stop the barbaric practice of stoning. While we’re talking about barbaric practices, "honor" killings are also something that should be sent on a one-way trip to the past.
Cal Thomas suggests Israel and Palestine hash it out with each other until they're finally tired of killing each other, and then come to peace, in much the same manner that Ireland fought with itself until coming to terms. If that’s what it will take, and no American peace conference or good will or pressure will bring the two to a settlement and agreement they’ll uphold, then it’s probably best to let them fight it out until they’re ready to negotiate. It’ll just be pretty bloody.
This may sound weird to some people, but it appears that liberals and conservatives might be able to agree on the need to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons - the terrists might just be the common foe both sides need to reduce or eliminate nuke weaponry.
In American partisan politics, one more reason that Mike Huckabee is eminently un-electable and would be destructive to the American populace - the founder of "Watchmen at the Walls", a known hate group, endorsed Mr. Huckabee, among others, and it looks like Mike might also believe in the things they’re promoting. Freaky. Since Mr. Huckabee seems quite in on the hurry the end of the world department, we’re presenting some options of possible end times scenarios for him to pick from. And just to pile on at the very end, Fundies Say the Darnedest Things offers the top 100 quotes culled from "Christian" chat rooms and forums.
Craig Shirley is giving a very hairy eyeball to what the modern Republican party's version of "conservative" is. Shirley describes how each leg of the Reagan coalition has come to crave the power of the government and the White House doing their bidding, turning the Republicans into a pretty big-government party.
The FCC is investigating claims made against Comcast and other providers with regard to how much ISPs and mobile providers are respecting the concept of net neutrality. Hooray for investigation. I wonder what the results will be, though. If the government would take a sane step and decriminalize file-sharing, then there wouldn’t be a need to “shape” traffic or monitor it. Most people would pay tax on media and devices that can be used to file-share with, if they were then able to just trade files across the net as they wanted.
A design flaw in the I-35 bridge in Minnesota that collapsed has been cited as a contributor to the collapse. With no redundancies and the steel connecting both halves of the bridge being half the appropriate thickness, the bridge was definitely not as safe as it appeared.
Texas is the state with the biggest carbon footprint. And yes, there’s already been several “everything’s bigger in Texas” jokes made in the article.
The Hoover Street Rag, which has been operating with a lack of institutional control since its inception, calls boo-urns on Notre Dame University, for barring the Michigan Hockey Pep Band from attending Notre Dame's "home" game at the Palace of Auburn Hills, while bringing their own band. Despite a possible precedent that allows for both bands to coexist harmoniously on neutral-ice locations.
In Weird Science’s realm, a research team is attempting to develop a paper airplane that can survive re-entry. Slightly more practical, have I linked to the corn-based compostable plastic-like cups before? I don’t remember. Back to esoteric matters, an illustrated history of trepanation might leave a few holes in your skull, but they’ll probably be for the best. They’ll at least be deliberate, rather than one generated by R.O.U.S., who have had their fossils uncovered in Uruguay.
I like the best, however, a shirt that selects random hexagrams from the Book of Changes and displays them on the back of the shirt. It might result in an oracle consultation that someone needed but never formally articulated. And it would be cool just to have the ability to manifest hexagrams as desired. It beats fortune cookies, which according to the theory of a Japanese researcher, originate from Japan, not China, so the lack of historical data about fortune cookies in China might make more sense.
The Stupid criminals file closes things out tonight - a robber, after taking the cash, shoots himself in the testicles putting his gun away. Not quite Darwin-award material, but it might at least pass the first cut. After that, all I need is some Questionable Content involving a brawl between home electronics. And with that, we’re off to bed.
In international news, human rights groups are continuing their appeals for Iran to stop the barbaric practice of stoning. While we’re talking about barbaric practices, "honor" killings are also something that should be sent on a one-way trip to the past.
Cal Thomas suggests Israel and Palestine hash it out with each other until they're finally tired of killing each other, and then come to peace, in much the same manner that Ireland fought with itself until coming to terms. If that’s what it will take, and no American peace conference or good will or pressure will bring the two to a settlement and agreement they’ll uphold, then it’s probably best to let them fight it out until they’re ready to negotiate. It’ll just be pretty bloody.
This may sound weird to some people, but it appears that liberals and conservatives might be able to agree on the need to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons - the terrists might just be the common foe both sides need to reduce or eliminate nuke weaponry.
In American partisan politics, one more reason that Mike Huckabee is eminently un-electable and would be destructive to the American populace - the founder of "Watchmen at the Walls", a known hate group, endorsed Mr. Huckabee, among others, and it looks like Mike might also believe in the things they’re promoting. Freaky. Since Mr. Huckabee seems quite in on the hurry the end of the world department, we’re presenting some options of possible end times scenarios for him to pick from. And just to pile on at the very end, Fundies Say the Darnedest Things offers the top 100 quotes culled from "Christian" chat rooms and forums.
Craig Shirley is giving a very hairy eyeball to what the modern Republican party's version of "conservative" is. Shirley describes how each leg of the Reagan coalition has come to crave the power of the government and the White House doing their bidding, turning the Republicans into a pretty big-government party.
The FCC is investigating claims made against Comcast and other providers with regard to how much ISPs and mobile providers are respecting the concept of net neutrality. Hooray for investigation. I wonder what the results will be, though. If the government would take a sane step and decriminalize file-sharing, then there wouldn’t be a need to “shape” traffic or monitor it. Most people would pay tax on media and devices that can be used to file-share with, if they were then able to just trade files across the net as they wanted.
A design flaw in the I-35 bridge in Minnesota that collapsed has been cited as a contributor to the collapse. With no redundancies and the steel connecting both halves of the bridge being half the appropriate thickness, the bridge was definitely not as safe as it appeared.
Texas is the state with the biggest carbon footprint. And yes, there’s already been several “everything’s bigger in Texas” jokes made in the article.
The Hoover Street Rag, which has been operating with a lack of institutional control since its inception, calls boo-urns on Notre Dame University, for barring the Michigan Hockey Pep Band from attending Notre Dame's "home" game at the Palace of Auburn Hills, while bringing their own band. Despite a possible precedent that allows for both bands to coexist harmoniously on neutral-ice locations.
In Weird Science’s realm, a research team is attempting to develop a paper airplane that can survive re-entry. Slightly more practical, have I linked to the corn-based compostable plastic-like cups before? I don’t remember. Back to esoteric matters, an illustrated history of trepanation might leave a few holes in your skull, but they’ll probably be for the best. They’ll at least be deliberate, rather than one generated by R.O.U.S., who have had their fossils uncovered in Uruguay.
I like the best, however, a shirt that selects random hexagrams from the Book of Changes and displays them on the back of the shirt. It might result in an oracle consultation that someone needed but never formally articulated. And it would be cool just to have the ability to manifest hexagrams as desired. It beats fortune cookies, which according to the theory of a Japanese researcher, originate from Japan, not China, so the lack of historical data about fortune cookies in China might make more sense.
The Stupid criminals file closes things out tonight - a robber, after taking the cash, shoots himself in the testicles putting his gun away. Not quite Darwin-award material, but it might at least pass the first cut. After that, all I need is some Questionable Content involving a brawl between home electronics. And with that, we’re off to bed.
