What was I thinking all this time?!?

Human rights is just an invention of the Jews!

They survived 2,000 years of pogroms not by hitting back but by thinking, Mahathir said of the Jews. They invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others.

I don’t even know what to say.

Much because I spent many years as a nuke, I’ve got an inability to leave well enough alone. I dig iTunes, and the iPod, but have a few gripes.

- Why can’t you make links to songs/albums in the music store? It’d be a great way to “share” music without illegally swapping files. – I’m a little miffed that Apple kicked the first and second gen iPods to the curb with the new rev. There hasn’t been a software update since they added AAC compatibility. I’d especially like the ‘Playlist on the fly’ feature. – Have to upload album art by song, not by album. Takes up mucho espace.

Wanna ride a bicycle from Houston to Austin, spending the night sleeping on the ground in (bud-up buh buh buh buh badaba bud-up buh buh buh buh “Ya must be down, in that Texas town, just a shack outside) LaGrange (They got a lotta pretty girls there”)

This is the year to knock the rust of the two-wheeler and do it, since next year’s ride finishes on the steps of the Texas Capitol building. Pretty nifty, huh.

BTW- The Houston Coordinator for the MS 150 is none other than CMHS ‘s own Adolph Trudeau.

I ran across an experiment in which a popular gaming magazine forced a number of tweens to play a bunch of old school games, like Pong and Donkey Kong.

Something tells me that JRO has already seen this, but I still found it pretty damned funny. Hell, I bet that JRO has all of these games in his garage.

Fijians say sorry to eaten Briton’s family

The family of an English missionary who was eaten by Fijian tribes people 136 years ago are to receive an apology.

According to local media, the remote village of Navatusila of Navosa on the Fijian island of Viti Levu has invited the descendants of the late Reverend Thomas Baker to visit next month.

This trip and apology ceremony has “wacky misadventure” written all over it. I hope an enterprising documentarian is following along to catch it.

I’m imagining an overly-accomodating British man apologizing to the apologizers for causing them to worry. (“Oh really, no bother at all, grandad could be a little rude at times, and I’m sure they were really quite hungry.”)

Also, the sullen teen of the family who never takes his iPod out of his ears.

…but apparently, not as much as the next guy — If the next guy is this guy.

Especially poignant is the look on thier faces. Surely this was a family gift from a rich relative and they couldn’t bring themselves to say no.

(stolen from linkfilter.net who stole it from this site)

News Flash! There are still folks out there who want to kill us simply because we’re Americans.

Like this fella who was wandering around McMaster University up in Canada, the 52^nd^ state.

According to an FBI informant, (The Prospective Terrorist) was spotted last year in Hamilton, Ontario, posing as a student at McMaster University, which has a 5-megawatt research reactor. U.S. officials believe (The Prospective Terrorist), whose photograph was posted on the FBI’s Web site in March, was in Hamilton trying to obtain radioactive material.

It looks like this guy was fingered by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and has pretty solid connections to Sr. Jose Padilla, the ‘Dirty Bomber.’

To me, at least.

The Senate has proposed making half of the $20 Billion or so that’s non-military costs associated with correcting 20+ years of dictatorship in Iraq into a loan, instead of a direct grant.

The kicker, and why I think this may be a decent move, is that if other nations forgive the debts that Saddam Hussein’s regeime incurred, we’ll forgive this one.

All the spam I have received about starting a new business and getting secrets on EBay have been trumped by this article with a real business model based on an EBay secret.

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(yes, it’s juvenile. what did you expect?)